Garden City Public Library, serving an area of 22,000 residents, has a collection of 154,000 books and periodicals; in addition, there are 6,900 CDs, records, cassettes and other audio materials, as well as 3,600 video items, such as DVDs and VHS tapes.
Staffing consists of 36 employees, of whom 11 are fully accredited librarians, plus volunteers. Annual expenditures on the library collection total $380,000. Patrons make 300,000 visits annually, and check out materials 350,000 times. Twenty-six percent of all check-outs are children's materials.